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<nav id="TableOfContents" aria-label="On this page"> <ul> <li><a href="#what-is-yom-teruah-the-feast-of-trumpets">What is Yom Teruah, the Feast of Trumpets?</a></li> <li><a href="#start-with-scripture">Start with Scripture</a></li> <li><a href="#rosh-hashanah-in-jewish-life">Rosh Hashanah in Jewish life</a></li> <li><a href="#wake-up-and-pay-attention">Wake up and pay attention</a></li> <li><a href="#trumpet-hope-in-the-new-testament">Trumpet hope in the New Testament</a></li> <li><a href="#practice-it-together">Practice it together</a></li> <li><a href="#scripture-concordance">Scripture concordance</a></li> <li><a href="#continue-the-tishrei-journey">Continue the Tishrei journey</a></li> </ul> </nav>

Appointed-time guide

Yom Teruah / Rosh Hashanah

A Scripture-first Christian guide to Yom Teruah, often called the Feast of Trumpets, and its relationship to Rosh Hashanah: Leviticus 23, shofar, repentance, remembrance, blessing, and Christian hope.

Biblical appointed time

Scripture anchor: Leviticus 23:23-25

Hebrew month:Tishrei

What is Yom Teruah, the Feast of Trumpets?

is the ’s name for the first day of the seventh month, 1 Tishrei: a day of rest, sacred assembly, remembrance, and —a trumpet or blast. Christians often call this biblical day the Feast of Trumpets. In living Jewish tradition, the same date is , the head of the year.

Learning both layers helps Christian readers hear the biblical trumpet day and understand the living Jewish New Year without flattening one into the other.

Start with Scripture

Read Leviticus 23:23-25 and Numbers 29:1-6.

The Torah’s language is spare and strong: rest, sacred assembly, remembrance, and trumpet blast. The sound interrupts ordinary life and marks the day before God.

Rosh Hashanah in Jewish life

Rosh Hashanah is the Jewish New Year and is observed for two days in Jewish practice. The shofar, prayer, repentance, blessing, shared meals, and hope for a good year are central features of the season.

The days from Rosh Hashanah through Yom Kippur are commonly called the Ten Days of Repentance and are also associated with the Days of Awe.

Jewish tradition uses Tishrei as the head of the year for the numbering of years, while the Torah gives Nisan first place in the spring festival sequence around the Exodus. Both patterns help explain the calendar Christians encounter today.

Wake up and pay attention

A trumpet interrupts ordinary noise. Let Yom Teruah become a call to attention before Jesus.

Remember God’s faithfulness over the year behind you. Ask the Holy Spirit where attention has drifted, where compromise needs repentance, and where gratitude has gone unspoken. Bless your household. Pray for the year ahead. Make the repair that is already clear.

This is a day for wakefulness rather than panic. Biblical attention leads us toward God, truth, repentance, hope, and faithful action.

Trumpet hope in the New Testament

The New Testament also uses trumpet language when speaking about resurrection and the return of Christ. Read 1 Corinthians 15:51-58 and 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 as Christian hope texts.

Those passages do not name Yom Teruah directly, but they give believers a powerful biblical reason to hear trumpet imagery with expectation: death will not have the final word, and Jesus will gather His people.

Practice it together

  • Children: make or hear a simple trumpet sound and ask, “What helps us pay attention to God?”
  • Teens: name one distraction, compromise, or relationship that needs honest attention.
  • Adults: review the year before God with gratitude and repentance, then pray over the year ahead.
  • Elders: speak blessing over younger generations and tell one story of God’s faithfulness across years.

A household can read Leviticus 23:23-25, sound a shofar if one is available or simply pause in silence, thank God for the year behind, confess what needs confession, pray for the year ahead, and speak blessing over one another.

Scripture concordance

  • Leviticus 23:23-25 — the day of teruah
  • Numbers 29:1-6 — offerings for the day
  • Psalm 81:1-4 — trumpet and appointed time
  • Joel 2:12-17 — return to the LORD
  • 1 Corinthians 15:51-58 — resurrection and the trumpet
  • 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 — Christian hope and the trumpet of God

Continue the Tishrei journey

Yom Teruah opens a concentrated season of attention and repentance that moves toward Yom Kippur / the Day of Atonement , then into the joy of Sukkot . Wake up to God, remember His faithfulness, receive His mercy, and walk the month with prayerful expectation.